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pages with liberals and unbelieving intellectuals as well as to address evangelical interests.Hiscontests with some associates and the board are there to see-episode by episode and line upon line .. He never calls a spade· by any other name thana spade. Plainly, he feels that some of the treatment he received by the board and some staff, treatment that led to his termination as editor, was shabby. He read their actions as summary dismissal. The reader will follow with sympathy, perhaps agreement. Henry is not rancorous. He does not approve of the way the magazine has since "veered from its original stance as a professional thought journal to a largely lay-oriented publication" (p.300). Henry also devotes a. great deal of the book to the founding and fortunes of Fuller Theological· Seminary. He writes: "In May, 1947, radio . evangelist Charles E.Fuller, Harold John Ockenga, Wilbur M. Smith,Everett F. Harrison .... and 1 met at the Palmer House in Chicago to talk and pray about launching an evangelical seminary inCalifornia" (p. 114). Smith,Harrison, Henry and H. Lindsell (wholater succeeded Henry as second editor of Christianity Today ) met the first entering class of 39 in Se.ptember of the same year. Fuller prospered and grew as a conservative, evangelical seminary. The first president, H. J. Ockenga, brought sharp criticism when at that time he coined the word "neoevangelical." "Actually extremist fundamentalist spokesmen decried the term 'evangelical' no less than 'neo-evangelical,' and went to incredible lengths to deride and embarrass the new seminary and· its friends" (p.117). The story of how Fuller modified its official statement on the· doctrine of Scripture and, in Henry's view, slipped seriously from its initial moorings is traced through several pages. It was from Fuller that Henry was "snatched" ·to become .first editor ofChristianity Today-a reluctant departure for Henry also regretted by colleagues at Fuller. The author does not engage in theology or apologetics, even though he has labored continuously in those areas for more than forty years and gave some of his best literary efforts to them. His writings were surveyed in Carl F. H.Henry by B. E.Patterson (Word, 1983),ofwhichmy review appeared in JETS 27(1984). The chips from Henry's axe may now fall where they will. He has already served his own and another generation beside. With energies apparently little abated, his face seems set in another direction, for with this prayer his autobiography ends: "Lord, get me safely home before dark." Robert Duncan Culver Houston, MN
Computer Assisted Tools for Septuagint Studies, vol. 1: Ruth (SBLSCS 20). By RobertA. Kraft, Emanuel Tov, et at. Atlanta: Scholars, 1986,
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pages with liberals and unbelieving intellectuals as well as to address evangelical interests.Hiscontests with some associates and the board are there to see-episode by episode and line upon line .. He never calls a spade· by any other name thana spade. Plainly, he feels that some of the treatment he received by the board and some staff, treatment that led to his termination as editor, was shabby. He read their actions as summary dismissal. The reader will follow with sympathy, perhaps agreement. Henry is not rancorous. He does not approve of the way the magazine has since "veered from its original stance as a professional thought journal to a largely lay-oriented publication" (p.300). Henry also devotes a. great deal of the book to the founding and fortunes of Fuller Theological· Seminary. He writes: "In May, 1947, radio . evangelist Charles E.Fuller, Harold John Ockenga, Wilbur M. Smith,Everett F. Harrison .... and 1 met at the Palmer House in Chicago to talk and pray about launching an evangelical seminary inCalifornia" (p. 114). Smith,Harrison, Henry and H. Lindsell (wholater succeeded Henry as second editor of Christianity Today ) met the first entering class of 39 in Se.ptember of the same year. Fuller prospered and grew as a conservative, evangelical seminary. The first president, H. J. Ockenga, brought sharp criticism when at that time he coined the word "neoevangelical." "Actually extremist fundamentalist spokesmen decried the term 'evangelical' no less than 'neo-evangelical,' and went to incredible lengths to deride and embarrass the new seminary and· its friends" (p.117). The story of how Fuller modified its official statement on the· doctrine of Scripture and, in Henry's view, slipped seriously from its initial moorings is traced through several pages. It was from Fuller that Henry was "snatched" ·to become .first editor ofChristianity Today-a reluctant departure for Henry also regretted by colleagues at Fuller. The author does not engage in theology or apologetics, even though he has labored continuously in those areas for more than forty years and gave some of his best literary efforts to them. His writings were surveyed in Carl F. H.Henry by B. E.Patterson (Word, 1983),ofwhichmy review appeared in JETS 27(1984). The chips from Henry's axe may now fall where they will. He has already served his own and another generation beside. With energies apparently little abated, his face seems set in another direction, for with this prayer his autobiography ends: "Lord, get me safely home before dark." Robert Duncan Culver Houston, MN
Computer Assisted Tools for Septuagint Studies, vol. 1: Ruth (SBLSCS 20). By RobertA. Kraft, Emanuel Tov, et at. Atlanta: Scholars, 1986,
